Detroit’s new mayor
Posted by Media Outrage on September 19, 2008
Ken Cockrel Jr. was sworn in as Detroit’s new mayor yesterday. Cockrel was president of the City Council and will now have the chance to provide leadership at the highest level in the city as a result of Kwame Kilpatrick’s text sex scandal. To see Ken Cockrel Jr in action during a city council a few months ago that went very wrong click here.
Via Yahoo:
Cockrel has hired a former federal prosecutor as deputy mayor, picked a police chief and urged residents to put their trust in the new team at City Hall.
In remarks to reporters this week, he said getting his hands on the city’s budget problems is a priority. Cockrel already has met with outside auditors.
“When you have your financial house in order, it makes it a lot easier to do the other things that you want to do,” the 42-year-old former newspaper reporter said.
Kilpatrick, a Democrat, left office Thursday and will go to jail next month as part of a recent plea deal with prosecutors. He admitted lying on the witness stand in a civil lawsuit over the firing of two police officers.
Kilpatrick’s 120-day jail sentence starts Oct. 28.
Mediaoutrage- Out with the old in with the new.
September 19, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I am not feeling the new mayor! They didn’t stop until Kwame was out of office and “shrek” was in.
September 21, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Let’s hope that he has no skeleton’s in his closet.